Roberto Bolaño: Amulet

Several people asked me why, in my review of The Savage Detectives, I thought that Auxilio Lacouture was not given a convincing female voice. I didn’t know exactly why, but something about her tough talk ...

Roberto Bolaño: The Savage Detectives

Q: You are Chilean, Spanish or Mexican? A: I am Latin American. (Roberto Bolaño) This is a long book–too long, in fact–but it makes its point. Bolano, who died a few years back as a ...

David Grossman: See Under: Love

pica on Roberto Bolano

Roberto Bolano: By Night in Chile

There is not much overlap these days between the worlds of literature and politics. The president is illiterate, only ever referring to a couple of books, and even the marginalized theoreticians do not have a ...

Three Versions of Politics

Whiteness Theory